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Kresge Library > Services > Instruction > Pathfinders > Civil Rights Movement

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By:

Daniel F. Ring Assistant Professor

Phone: (248) 370-2498 E-mail: ring@oakland.edu

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REFERENCE BOOKS (See also pathfinder Black Americans)

The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights. (Ref. HT 861 .H37 2001)

Civil Rights Chronicle: The African-American Struggle for Freedom. (Ref. JC 599 .U5 C558 2003)

Civil Rights in the United States. (Ref. E184 .A1 C47 2000)

Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile. (Ref. E185.61 .E54 1992)

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. (Ref. E 185.61 .E54 1992)

Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. (Ref. HT 861 .H37 2001)

Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Civil Rights. (Ref. KF 4749 .P626 2002)

Encyclopedia of American Race Riots. (Ref. E 184 .A1 E573 2007)

INTERNET SITES

Encyclopedias and Overviews

King Encyclopedia

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Civil Rights Movement

Encarta's Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Encyclopaedia Britannica's Civil Rights Movement

King and the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction
Covers:

1. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
2. Sit-Ins
3. The Freedom Rides
4. Birmingham
5. The March on Washington
6. Mississippi and Freedom Summer
7. Selma

Biographical

Martin Luther King, Jr. From the BBC, a brief bio.

Martin Luther King's Style of Leadership

Martin Luther King Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement This site is from the Seattle Times; it has lots of links to other resources.

The Voice of King Good for sermons and speeches.

Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. This site has a lot of links.

Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights Leader

Rosa Parks There is a drop down on the right. Use it to find a few more leaders.

Asa Philip Randolph

Google's Directory: Civil Rights Movement Covers these biographies plus other resources:

Douglass, Frederick
Jackson, Jesse
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Malcolm X
Marshall, Thurgood
Parks, Rosa
Rustin, Bayard
Truth, Sojourner

Books

The Immigrant Heritage of America by Norman by Norman Coombs

 

State and Local

Civil Rights Movement in Florida

Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky

Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi Contains audio. Also searchable by a timeline.

Civil Rights in Mississippi:Digital Archive

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

Documents

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Modern History Sourcebook: George C. Wallace: The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud Sham and Hoax, July 4, 1964

John F. Kennedy's Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights

Photographs

Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida

Heros of the Civil Rights Movement Contains mug shots from Alabama.

Racial Segregation Signs

Timelines

Civil Rights Timeline

Brief Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1965)

Southern Civil Rights Movement

Resources

The Civil Rights Movement The best resource here. Covers a variety of subjects like oral history, digital archives.

Yahoo's U.S. Civil Rights Movement Good for biography plus many other sites.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Voices of Civil Rights Has a search engine.

J. Edgar Hoover and the American Civil Rights Movement

Links In no particular order.

Academic Info: Civil Rights Movement This is a very good collection of sites in no order.

The March on Washington 1963 Here are some photos of the march.

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement Veterans Contains photos, updates on veterans of the movement and much more.

We Shall Overcome Covers historic places.